Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Muenten, in 1906, was living the quiet life of a German instructor here. In best murder fiction tradition, he was harmless on the surface. He affected a scholarly stoop and a Van Dyke, and wore dingy, patched suits...
Camp librarians report that the greatest demand is for fiction, which includes, adventure, aviation, historical novels, humor, mystery, sports and westerns, and recent technical and scientific books, including law and medical texts, mathematical books of all kinds, biography, history and current affairs...
...Kelland had just got a new job. Joe Martin had appointed him GOPublicity Chief, to replace Franklyn Waltman. Best known as a highly paid writer of commercial fiction, wry-faced "Bud" Kelland is a hardshell, old-style GOPman who once cracked: "The fifth column in this country is headed by that fellow in the White House...
...Ivory Mischief* is not what it seems. It seems another of those long (840-page), thickly upholstered Jumbos of period fiction, with an advance printing (including Book-of-the-Month Club) of a quarter of a million copies. But unlike most books of the type, its re-creation is solid, convincing and intimate, its characterizations are shrewd, its style adult, and even the upholstery is interesting...
...rich cyclorama of 20th-Century world history (World's End, Between Two Worlds, TIME, June 24, 1940 & March 24). It is the first to suggest that the completed work may, for all its lack of psychological and esthetic depth, be almost great. Great or not, few works of fiction are more fun to read; fewer still make history half as clear, or as humane...